For the eager eyed among you, you may have seen me (Coach Ant) take on the new version of the FTP test that our software is utilising. (Check out the video here) I’ll give you a quick breakdown. The old protocol consisted of warming up, then riding for 20 minutes. The aim of which was to ride the best average power possible for that amount of time. The test was frankly hard, […]
The Power of Power.
We’ve all heard the old adage of ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ and that might be true in the case of a dictator but when it comes to training on a bike there is no training metric more reliable than that of power. So that might beg the question: What is power in the context of cycling? To answer this we need a little bit of science! Power is the time derivative […]
Want To Know the GOLDEN RULE To Riding YOUR Bike Faster?
Here it is… You’ve got to ride YOUR bike. The emphasis there is on ‘YOUR’ bike. Not someone elses, not a frame that comes close, not even another static indoor bike trainer. The reason being, no other bike will ever match the setup of YOUR own bike. You HAVE to get comfortable putting out the hard efforts in a position that you will be replicating when you ride on the road or the […]